The Curator - Week Five

Today was deadline day. I immediately started on my resolved samples that I had yet to do. I used the black organza that I pintucked yesterday and started cutting it into strips that I could use for my samples.

I took some calico and made the brain shape all over that I had for my machine sample on the big scale. I sewed onto the fabric with a grey coloured thread so that you could barely see the stitches. I then machine sewed my highlight colours into the shapes and I then did some handsewn shapes onto black cotton almost the same as my hand embroidery and cut them out and stiched them on as in my first machine embroidery.

This took my most of the day and I was panicking about my second resolved sample when one of the lecturers came over and told me that one of my fabric manipulations looked like a resolved sample but it was too light. I put black organdie over the sample and slashed and frayed selected parts of the sample.

We were then taken down to a lecture from Dundee University where we saw examples of work and were spoken too about the course. I think if we hadn't been on such a strict deadline I probably would have gladly gone but I was a bit reluctant. I did pick up a prospectus. (Reading up on options- always a good idea).

When I came back up I now had to come up with another fabric manipulation to make up for the one which I made a resolved. I still hadn't used the black pintucks so I used them like the watercolour ones I had previously done.

I used the rest of the time finishing off all my samples with hand embroidery and little bits of machine stitch. I only just managed to get everything done before the deadline. The lecturers then decided to give the class another hour due to the lecture from Dundee but I was working at five and so in order not to be late I had to leave at four.

Last week my print lecturer asked if I could talk to her today before I left to discuss what I should photocopy tomorrow.

Well... I  tried to hand my stuff in and the lecturer said I had to label everything. She must have seen how much I was panicking and let me off without labeling it. I did go to see the print lecturer and by the time I got out of college it was 4.25.

Luckily I got to work with about a minute to spare. Whew!

Bobbi Jean Shields
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